Contact Information

Education

PhD, Munich, 1995

MA, Munich, 1990

BA, Cologne, 1985

Courses Regularly Taught

UGC 112: The Emergence of the Global World HIS 313: 20th Century Europe HIS 315: German Culture and Society, 1789-1989 HIS 346: 19th Century Europe HIS 378: Nazi Germany HIS 395: History of the Cold War HIS 420: The Third Reich in Europe HIS 472: Topics in the History of Science HIS 501: Historical Inquiry (Introductory Course for Ph.D. Students) HIS 525: Cultural History of Science and Medicine HIS 571: Readings in 20th Century German History HIS 580: Modern European Core Seminar HIS 637: Problems in European History HIS 647: 20th Century International Relations

Research Interests

German, European and Transatlantic History from the 18th to the 20th century; history of science and knowledge; history of historiography; Emigration after 1933

Current Research

Alexander von Humboldt and the Emergence of the Global World: A Biography

“German Naturalists in the Pacific around 1800: Entanglement, Autonomy, and a Transnational Culture of Expertise,” in Explorations and Entanglements: Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I, ed. Hartmut Berghoff, Frank Biess, and Ulrike Strasser. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018.

“’Atlantic Partnership’ or Simply ‘A Mess’? Performative Politics and Social Communication in the Western Alliance During the Kennedy Presidency,” in John F. Kennedy and the ‘Thousand Days:’ New Perspectives on the Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Kennedy Administration, ed. Manfred Berg and Andreas Etges (Winter, 2007).

“‘The Next Great Task of Civilization:’ International Exchange in Popular Science. The German-American Case, 1850-1900,” in The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics 1850-1914, ed. Martin H. Geyer and Johannes Paulmann (Oxford University Press, 2001)